Suggestion Four Discussion

The American economy has definitely changed since 1960. Back then a house was $16,500, a gallon of gas 31 cents, and a first class stamp a mere 4 cents. Things were much less expensive and inflation was only at 1.4%.
The United States has been in at least 3 wars since 1960. We lost Vietnam and who knows what's going on with the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the Cold War was just plain scary, so I've heard. All of these wars have cost the U.S. so much money and put us in so much debt that they're a big reason why our economy is so awful today.
Jobs are not as plentiful today as they were back then. I couldn't even get a job this summer so I had to create my own doing lawn services for people at a really low price. I feel like my personal opportunities job-wise have been narrowed, but I know I have more opportunities in life.

I chose this comic because it is pretty great and  relevant to class. There are so many funny occupy Wall St. pictures but I decided to choose this one because of it's sarcastic tone. The sock puppets symbolize the innocence of childhood. When we were younger adults would use puppets to help us learn while being entertained, and so this comic is showing how even as an "adult" we have to be spoon fed the truth. There's even singing at the end to keep our attention! I love how at the end you see the shnazzy  business suit the puppeteer is wearing, showing the reader where all the lies come from.

The truth about our medicare system hits hard because everyone has experienced some sort of medical bill. My brother, Kyle, and I were in a bad car wreck when I was in eight grade and we had to stay over-night. The ambulance ride alone was $1000 and we only rode like 10-20 minutes to the hospital. We both had to also get CAT scans because he had amnesia, which cost even more. I don't remember how much the little event cost my parents but I know our deductible was really high.

I don't know why everyone is complaining about President Obama when things haven't gotten any worse. Maybe it's time for this country to change more than just Wall St. That will never happen though because people are stubborn, which isn't always a bad thing. Acceptance of others and cooperation of every American will be the keys to making some actual change in our lifetime.

Du Bois and Stanton

In Of Our Spiritual Strivings, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about how his fellow African Americans were being treated as a problem instead of people. They were likened to an infestation of rats, basically, and were not seen as equals. Most may have been uneducated but they should not have been treated like pests. African Americans were not given equal rights just like white women were not treated as equals either. Cady Stanton wrote in Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions about how women deserve equal rights just like everyone else. Both authors wrote about how they were owned and kept in sub-servitude by the white man by his laws, which was against everything the constitution stands for. If either group was to get out from under the oppressive hand of white man laws, they were going to have to take a stand and fight for their rights.

Men have this crazy idea that they own the world because that’s how they were raised, and it’s not okay. Jokes about how women belong in the kitchen drive me absolutely nuts and my brother says them because he knows they make me so mad. Racist and sexist jokes are never okay, and people who say them need to take a step back and step into that person’s shoes before they judge him or her.

I painted this to represent how the Lacks family was kept in a tangle of lies by the white doctors. The face represents the family and it's in a shadow of white to show how the doctors also kept them in the shadows. The black background shows symbolizes the lack of information the family knew about Henrietta, and the circle is the white bubble in which the doctors kept the family in; they wouldn't let the Lackses obtain information about Henrietta's cells or what they did to her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xSdtf4qf4M
This video is about how the Henrietta Lacks scholarship has helped 23 black students become medical proffesionals and that her story has unsurfaced the problems between the public and medical researchers. The public tends to distrust researchers because things many of them have done are unethical and frowned upon. The institution Claudia Baquet is representing in this video has a goal educate its patients on bioethics so that the community will be more trusting of medical centers.

The point of this advertisement is it's trying to show everyone who drives by how realistic the Sony Bravia t.v. is. My television does not propel red paint at me, but apparently that's what people want out of a t.v. these days. The exigence of this ad is that the public is not going to know about this amazing product unless someone shows what it can do. This thing is so realistic that it looks like the color is flying right out of it and into your face. Who doesn't want that? The purpose is to show the consumers what they think they need, but in a really cool way. The mindset in the United States is that we need the latest, greatest, and most expensive "stuff" we can afford. The caption under the image reads "Colour like no other" which is telling the public that it's the best in class. The audience is obviously those in search of the newest and biggest wide screen with the highest definition available, which is pretty much everyone with a job that can afford one. The context is, once again, that everyone needs the best of the best even if that means cutting back on other things. The placement of the billboard looks like it isn't in the best of neighborhoods, but who cares what condition you're living in. As long as you've got an amazing television to impress your friends, you could live in a run-down apartment for all we care.
The logos of this ad is that it's the best television because it has colour like no other. I can't say I've seen many other t.v.'s vomit candy apple red at me so I will take Sony at their word.
I don't think there's any pathos in this ad besides the wow factor of the bright red contrasting with the white background. It really is a stunning image.
The ethos, to me, is simply the brand name. Sony makes excellent tech and I would trust anything with that brand name on it. If they tell me there's no other t.v. like the Bravia then I would know it's the best of the best, but I'm okay with the cheaper ones if Sony doesn't mind.